Mr. Carter said his spiritual rebirth was an “evolutionary thing” rather than “a flash of light or a sudden vision of God ...

Maranatha Baptist Church deacon Zac Steele saw it up ... That, plus his unabashed embrace of the label, “born-again Christian,” helped him win primary elections in states with large ...

Jimmy Carter was one of the most explicitly religious presidents, but his rise in politics came during a transformative era ...

As a candidate in 1976, Carter described himself as a “born-again Christian.” Based on the New Testament ... U.S.

Carter declared that he was no longer a Southern Baptist and threw his support behind a competing movement of moderates.

During the Democratic primaries that year, Carter mentioned to some journalists that he was an evangelical and a “born again ... churches across the country to mobilize conservative Christians ...

Carter talked openly and often in the 1976 campaign about his evangelical “born again” faith, ignoring those who advised him to downplay his beliefs.

He described himself as a born-again Christian and taught Sunday school at the Maranatha Baptist Church in his hometown of Plains, GA. His former pastor there, Rev. Dr. Jeremy Shoulta, joins host ...

Evangelicals are loosely defined as Christians who often share a “born-again” dramatic personal ... expel one of its largest and most prominent churches because it installed a woman as pastor.